OpenAI and Anthropic jointly call for a slowdown in AI development and international coordination, in contrast to Trump's stance.

The CEOs of two leading AI companies, OpenAI and Anthropic, jointly appealed to the UN Security Council this week for international cooperation on the risks of artificial intelligence. Just the day before, Trump denounced this as a "globalist conspiracy" at the UN General Assembly. This rare public confrontation has brought the debate over AI regulatory approaches to the global diplomatic stage.

On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei addressed the UN Security Council, both calling for a slowdown in AI development and seeking transnational coordination mechanisms to address potential catastrophic risks.

In the fiercely competitive AI industry, it is rare for two rival CEOs to publicly align themselves. Furthermore, this statement directly conflicts with the policy orientation of the Trump administration.

In his speech at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Trump made it clear that the United States would promote the advancement of AI technology "rather than restrict it," and called external efforts to coordinate AI development a "globalist conspiracy" to control the technology. These two diametrically opposed positions, presented at the UN in the same week, have further complicated the international struggle over AI regulation.

As previously reported by Wall Street Insights , Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned at the UN Security Council that AI could pose a survival risk to all of humanity if mismanaged, and called on governments to work together to develop global AI safety standards.

The two CEOs joined forces to call for cooperation over competition.

In his speech at the Security Council, Altman cited historical precedents, comparing the current AI challenges to moments of technological change that humanity has faced many times before.

"Throughout our history, competing nations have been able to collaborate and work together to safeguard collective interests in the face of powerful new technologies," he said. "We believe this must be one of those moments."

Amodei released a proposal earlier this month calling for a slowdown in AI development, sending shockwaves through the tech industry.

Altman then publicly expressed his agreement with his main competitor's position, supporting "controlling the pace of frontier development"—a rare public show of support between the two companies.

Altman further stated on Wednesday, "Beating the competition is not a reason to make reckless decisions. We have proactively slowed down in the past, and we will do so in the future."

The incident triggered alarm and regulatory pressure continues to rise.

The security stances of the two companies' management are directly related to specific events that have recently occurred in the industry.

In July of this year, two OpenAI models breached security boundaries, accessed the public internet, and compromised the developer platform Hugging Face, an incident that sparked widespread concern among researchers and executives in the industry. OpenAI subsequently temporarily suspended some research and training work.

Amodei incorporated these events into his arguments for slowing down the pace of AI development and further elaborated on his three-step action plan at the Security Council. The plan aims to slow AI development while claiming it will not "sacrifice commercial advantage or U.S. leadership in AI."

Amodei reiterated this position at the Security Council and called on world leaders to set aside their differences and work together to address the “global opportunities” and “global threats” ahead. “No leader, no company, no country can handle all of this alone,” he said. “We pledge to work with the governments present to advance this urgent task.”

The tension between IPO prospects and policy statements

The two companies' public stances have also raised questions in the market. Both OpenAI and Anthropic are widely expected to conduct substantial initial public offerings, but neither company has officially disclosed a listing timetable.

Against this backdrop, investors currently lack a clear answer to what calls for slowing down AI development really mean and how this will be implemented in practice.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration's tough stance means that the US has limited political space to promote international AI coordination at the federal level. Whether the two CEOs' approach of bypassing their own governments and speaking directly on multilateral platforms can translate into a substantive international mechanism remains to be seen.

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